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TABLE I
| Maximum permitted content of seed impurities (by number or as a percentage by weight) | |||||||||||||||||
| Species | Weight of sample for deter-mination of foreign seeds by number (grams) | Avena fatua, A.ludoviciana and A.sterilis (Wild oat) or Cuscuta spp. (Dodder) | Rumex spp. (Docks, Sorrels) excluding R.acetosella (Sheep's sorrel) and R.maritimus (Golden dock) | Alopecurus myosuroides (Blackgrass) | Agropyron repens(Couch) | Melilotus spp.(Sweetclovers) | Maximum content of any one other plant species | ||||||||||
| Basic Seed | Certified Seed | Basic Seed | Certified Seed | Basic Seed | Certified Seed | Basic Seed | Certified Seed | Basic Seed | Certified Seed | Basic Seed | Certified Seed | ||||||
| Minimum Standard and Higher Voluntary Standard | Minimum Standard | Higher Voluntary Standard | Minimum Standard | Higher Voluntary Standard | Minimum Standard | Higher Voluntary Standard | Minimum Standard and Higher Voluntary Standard | Minimum Standard | Higher Voluntary Standard | ||||||||
| Species | Weight of sample for determination of foreign seeds by number (grams) | Number | Number | Number | Number | Number | Number | % | Number | Number | % | Number | Number | % | Number | % | % |
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (11) | (12) | (13) | (14) | (15) | (16) | (17) | (18) |
| Grasses | |||||||||||||||||
| Cocksfoot | 30 | 0 | 0(a) | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0.3 | 10 | 5 | 0.3 | 10 | n/a | n/a | 20(b) | 1.0 | 0.5 |
| Festulolium | 60 | 0 | 0(a) | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0.3 | 10 | 5 | 0.5 | 10 | n/a | n/a | 20(b) | 1.0 | 0.5(c),(f) |
| Hybrid ryegrass | 60 | 0 | 0(a) | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0.3 | 10 | 5 | 0.5 | 10 | n/a | n/a | 20(b) | 1.0 | 0.5(c),(f) |
| Italian ryegrass | 60 | 0 | 0(a) | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0.3 | 10 | 5 | 0.5 | 10 | n/a | n/a | 20(b) | 1.0 | 0.5(c),(f) |
| Meadow fescue | 50 | 0 | 0(a) | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0.3 | 10 | 5 | 0.5 | 10 | n/a | n/a | 20(b) | 1.0 | 0.5(e),(f) |
| Perennial ryegrass | 60 | 0 | 0(a) | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0.3 | 10 | 5 | 0.5 | 10 | n/a | n/a | 20(b) | 1.0 | 0.5(b),(f) |
| Red fescue | 30 | 0 | 0(a) | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0.3 | 10 | 5 | 0.5 | 10 | n/a | n/a | 20(b) | 1.0 | 0.5(f),(g) |
| Smooth-stalked meadowgrass | 5 | 0 | 0(a) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0.3 | 3 | 1 | 0.3 | 3 | n/a | n/a | 20(m) | 1.0(k) | 0.5(l) |
| Tall fescue | 50 | 0 | 0(a) | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0.3 | 10 | 5 | 0.5 | 10 | n/a | n/a | 20(b) | 1.0 | 0.5(e),(f) |
| Timothy (including Small Timothy) | 10 | 0 | 0(a) | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0.3 | 10 | 1 | 0.3 | 10 | n/a | n/a | 20 | 1.0 | 0.5(d) |
| Legumes | |||||||||||||||||
| Lucerne | 50 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 10 | n/a | n/a | 10 | n/a | n/a | 10 | 0(h) | 0.3 | 20 | 1.0 | 0.5 |
| Red clover | 50 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 10 | n/a | n/a | 10 | n/a | n/a | 10 | 0(h) | 0.3 | 20 | 1.0 | 0.5 |
| Sainfoin Seed/Fruit | 400/600 | 0 | 0(j) | 2 | 5(j) | 5 | n/a | n/a(j) | 10 | n/a | n/a(j) | 10 | 0 | 0.3(j) | 20 | 1.0(n) | 0.5 |
| White clover | 20 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 10 | n/a | n/a | 10 | n/a | n/a | 10 | 0(h) | 0.3 | 20 | 1.0 | 0.5 |
(b) There shall be no more than 80 seeds of meadowgrasses in a sample of the size specified in column (2).
(c) There shall be no more than 0.4% by weight of annual meadowgrass.
(d) There shall be no more than 0.3% by weight of bentgrasses.
(e) There shall be no more than 0.3% by weight of ryegrasses.
(f) There shall be no more than 0.3% by weight of rough-stalked meadowgrass.
(g) For Certified Seed, Higher Voluntary Standard, of red fescue, there shall be no more than a total of 4 seeds of ryegrass, cocksfoot and meadow fescue in a sample of the size specified in column 2.
(h) One seed of sweetclover in a sample of the size specified in column 2 shall not be regarded as an impurity if a second sample of twice that size is free from seed of sweetclovers.
(j) Including Commercial Seed.
(k) In Certified Seed there shall be no more than 0.8% by weight of seeds of other meadowgrasses.
(l) In Certified Seed there shall be no more than 0.4% by weight of seeds of other meadowgrasses.
(m) In Basic seed of meadowgrass there shall be no more than 1 seed of meadowgrasses other than the species being examined, in a sample of 500 seeds.
(n) For Commercial Seed 2.0% .
n/a Not applicable (no standard).